The trouble with these things is they rarely turn out the way you think they will. The cover colour wasn't quite dark enough, what little text there is was a little too large, and a couple of the photographs had a technical flaw which I thought was a facet of the screen previews (I should perhaps have made test prints). The photographs came out well enough though.
Minor glitches aside, which I think I have corrected should I choose to get another copy printed sometime, I'm quite happy with the way it has turned out. Running pictures across the gutter was a gamble that doesn't work as well as it does on the screen, but if the book were 'properly' bound it would work better. I deliberately chose to place the gutter to one side or the other of the pictures -which is why some are aligned left and some right - to minimise it's impact.
Although I don't like to crop carefully composed pictures the full bleed pages were a visual device I used to break the layout into sections. In all it was an interesting exercise - both from a photographic and a presentational perspective. I wanted to try something other than the standard centred picture on a page layout.
Having got fresh ideas to investigate at the quarry this might only be a starting point.
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